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Inside the Maglev

The Maglev, Shanghai

Maglev - derived from magnetic levitation - is a system of transportation that uses magnetic levitation to suspend, guide and propel vehicles from magnets rather than using mechanical methods. Maglev transport is a means of flying a vehicle or object along a guideway by using magnets to create both lift and thrust, only a few inches above the guideway surface. High-speed maglev vehicles are lifted off their guideway and thus are claimed to move more smoothly and quietly – regardless of speed. This is German Engineering and Chinese will. What a joy ride it was. Video coming soon!

Parvathy Baul Live and Interviewed!

Bauls are a group of mystics from Bengal. Baul is a musical tradition as well as a spiritual path. Bauls are a very heterogeneous group, with many sects, but their membership mainly consists of Vaishnava Hindus and Sufi Muslims. They can often be identified by their distinctive clothes and musical instruments. Lalon Fakir is regarded as the most important poet-practioner of the Baul tradition. Baul music had a great influence on Rabindranath Tagore's poetry and on his music.

I met Parvaty Baul at the Kala Ghoda Art Festival this weekend. She studied at the Shantiniketan University, West Bengal. She met her Master (Guru) there and saw that Baul was a complete form of art and she chose to dedicate her life to it. She pursued studies in the Baul tradition rather than a formal education. She's has dedicated the last 19 years of her life to Baul.

Here's a Baul poem by Lalon Fakir translated.

How does the Unknown bird go,
into the cage and out again,
Could I but seize it,
I would put the fetters of my heart,
around its feet.
The cage has eight rooms and nine closed doors;
From time to time fire flares out;.
Above there is a main room,
The mirror-chamber
O my heart, you are set on the affaires
of the cage;
(Yet) the cage was made by you,
made with green bamboo;
The cage may fall apart any day.
Lalon says,
The bird may work its way out
and fly off somewhere.

— Lalon's song translated by Brother James

Tennis and the Taj

Mumbai! The MSLTA or the Maharashtra State Lawn Tennis Association all floodlit and the dome of the Taj Mahal Hotel in the background.

People everywhere in Beijing

People people everywhere! That's China for you. Beijing, in a market area.